Kinge Cyrus perswaded by Araspas, to dispose himselfe to loue a ladie
called Panthea, entreth into a pretie disputation and talke of loue and
beautie. Afterwards Araspas himselfe falleth in loue with the saide
ladie, but she indued with greate chastitie, auoydeth his earnest sute.
And when shee heard tell that her husbande was slaine in the seruice of
Cyrus, she killed herselfe.
[_Source._--Probably Bandello, iii. 9.
_Origin._--Xenophon (given as source by Painter).
_Parallels._--_Anc._: Plutarch, _Moralia; De curiositate. Modern_:
Belleforest; _Hist. trag._ iv. 265; Wanley, _Wonders_, I. xi. 30.
_Painter_, I. i. 27; II. i. 25; III. i. 44; IV. i. 58.
_Derivates--Warres of Cyrus, with the tragical Ende of Panthea_,
a tragedy, was printed in 1594.]